District Technology Committee

Welcome

What We Do

District Technology Committee

Responsibilities:

Identifies IT planning priorities, new IT resource requests, and IT policies.

Serves as a resource for IT related matters.

Forms standing workgroups as well as ad hoc workgroups to concentrate on specific
IT planning, and resource and technical matters. Recommendations of the workgroups
pertaining to governance related items such as IT planning priorities, new IT resource
requests and IT policies are forwarded to DTC.

Makes technology recommendations to CPC.

Meeting Schedule: 1st and 3rd Friday of each month, 1:30-3p.m. in A201

Responsibilities and Summary:

The District Technology Committee in its leadership role is charged with identifying
IT planning priorities, new IT resources and requests, IT policies, in addition to
development and implementation of the college District Technology Plan. DTC is chaired
by the Vice President of Information Technology, with membership consisting of faculty,
administrative, classified, and student representatives.

The District Technology Committee also oversees planning for the purchasing and replacement
of campus technology. Approximately $1.2 million has been allocated annually by the
College for replacement of outdated technology. The District Technology Committee
has approved a standard replacement cycle of four years for student laboratory computers,
four years for faculty and staff PCs, and five years for Apple computers. Network
hardware, network printers, and multimedia equipment are on five to ten year replacement
cycles dependent upon vendor life cycles. However, during the California fiscal crisis
this replacement cycle has been extended to five years.

Departmental planning is integrated into the annual Operational Program Review with
linkages made to the District Technology Plan and the College Plan. Monthly reports
by departmental representatives are presented during meetings of the District Technology
Committee on all College technology projects, including Continuing Education. The
District Technology Committee reports their progress and activities to the College
Planning Council and the Superintendent/President.

The governance structure for technology planning is designed to enable decisions regarding
technology initiatives to be made by those most closely affected by technology advancements
and initiatives. Decisions regarding IT initiatives are evaluated with respect to
each of the following five factors: (1) customer needs and expectations; (2) empowerment
of the individual; (3) efficient and effective operational processes; (4) maintaining
a competitive edge, (5) and relevance to both the College Plan and the District Technology
Plan. In order to facilitate the planning and decision-making process, members of
the Information Technology and the Educational Programs organizations serve as technical
support and resources to units of the College that are responsible for using technology
to serve their clients (i.e., students, faculty, staff, and community-based organizations).